EAST LANSING, MI- Michigan State University reports that it arrested 261 people for drugs in 2012, a 158 percent increase from two years earlier.

The Detroit Free Press says the East Lansing school had more drug arrests than any state school in 2012, the last year for which figures are available. The news says Michigan State had 31 percent more drug arrests than the 199 arrests at the University of Michigan that year.

The increase in police staffing is the latest of many safety efforts that have been implemented to ensure Eastern remains one of the safest campuses among Michigan public universities, as reflected by comparative safety data (www.emich.edu/safetycomparison). Eastern’s overall campus safety efforts include the deployment of more than 30 fully trained and licensed professional police officers, 24 hours a day/seven days a week operations, 500 security cameras that blanket campus, SEEUS campus escorts, and a variety of other safety measures.